Glass jar and cover for storage battery cells



Feb, 18, N36. c. c. WALLACE mums GLASS JAR AND COVER FOR STORAGE BATTERY CELLS Filed June 26, 1935 //VV/Vf0/P W/IWESS: W @zzrfa s UM/[ace W 5y 7 irra/m/fm Patented Feb. 18, 1936 V GLASS JAR AND COVER FOR STORAGE BATTERY CELLS Curtis 0. Wallace, Philadelphia, Pa., assignor to The Electric Storage Battery Company, Philadelphia, Pa., a corporation of New Jersey Application June 26, 1935, Serial No. 28,432

1 Claim. 136-470) Certain types of storage battery cells are asupon the upper edge of which rests the cover 2. sembled in glass jars with glass covers resting The cover is provided on its under side with deon the upper edges of the jar, the positive and pending peripheral lips 3 and 4, defining between negative plate groups being supported in the them a groove 5 which receives the upper edge 5 cell by suspending them from the cover by means of the jar wall. Within the groove 5, between the of the respective terminal posts which pass jar wall and the lips of the cover, is located sealthrough openings in the cover and whichare proing compound 6.

vided with seal-nuts threaded or otherwise at- Within the cell are positive and negative plate tached to the posts and bearing upon the upper groups I and 8, respectively provided with tersurface of the cover. minal posts I0 and II passing through corre- 10 It is practically impossible to provide an exact sponding openings in the cover. Seal-nuts l2 fit between the upper surface of the jar wall and and I3 are threaded on the terminal posts above the under side of the cover which bears upon the cover and support the weight of the plate this wall without incurring prohibitive expense groups from the cover. In the middle of the cover for grinding these surfaces. As a result, the is shown a vent opening l4 into which is fitted 15 cover usually rests upon the jar wall at three a suitable vent cap l5. points located by chance anywhere around the In order to locate the points where the cover periphery of the jar wall, depending upon the bears upon the top of the jar wall as close as chance location of irregularities in the surfaces. possible to the points where the plate groups These accidental points of contact are quite fre-' are supported, I have shown in the drawing 20 quently so located as to bring unnecessarily sepads l6 raised from the bottom surface of the vere strains on the cover. For example, they may groove 5 and located respectively at each end of be located at points quite remote from the the cover adjacent to the terminal posts l0 and points where the weight of the plate groups is II, respectively. These pads are of a height just supported from the cover, giving these weights sufficient to insure that the weight of the cover 25 an unnecessarily long leverage for developing V will bear on the top of the jar wall at these strains in the cover. 1 points regardless of slight irregularities in the One of the principal objects of my invention upper surface of the jar wall or the under suris to locate the points of contact between the face of the cover. It will be seen therefore that top of the jar wall and the under side of the I have provided for supporting the cover from 30 cover at definite locations with respect to the the jar wall at points as near as possible to the weight applied to the cover, so as to bring the points from which the weight of the plate groups supporting points as close as possible to the points is suspended, thus producing minimum stress on where the weight is applied. I accomplish this the cover due to these weights. by providing definitely a d, ra sed pads'on one I do not intend to be limited save as the scope 35 of the confronting surfaces of the cover and jar of the prior art and of the attached-claim may to insure definite points of contact between the require. top of the jar wall and the cover at the desired I claim:-- locations instead of leaving this to chance. In a storage battery, the combination of, a 40 My invention will be more clearly understood glass jar and a glass cover from which plate 40 y referring to the following escription in constructures are suspended in the jar, with raised nection With the acco p y d w forming glass pads interposed between the under face of part hereof and in which: the cover and the top of the wall of the jar and 1 is a plan V w Of a Cover Of a Storage arranged transversely of a line passing through b ry c ll mbo yin f r of my invention. both points of application of the Weight of the 45 2 is a Central Sectional elevation o t plate structures to the glass cover to bring the upper part of the cell. supporting point of the cover as close as possible Fig. 3 is a vertical section through a Portion of to the points where the weight of the plate structhe end wall and cover on line 33 of Fig. 2. ture i applied,

In the drawing, I is the wall of the glass jar CURTIS C. WALLACE, 50 

